RE: Rumour Mill15 May 2024 11:41
If the Lanstead shares were bought out by the BOD (or others) the buyers would see an immediate uplift in their value as the market would see this as an 'overhang cleared' moment.
Lanstead, Yorkville and others of their ilk are despised by investors, I was staggered the BOD could have been so naive doing a deal with such an outfit, clearly they were suckered in by the speel on Lansteads website suggesting they were good for companies, utter tosh.
There are just under 15 months on this deal, as it stands I calculate Lanstead would need to sell circa 1.4m shares per trading day to be out at the close. That is not a huge number as an average, however, Lanstead play the game well and will dump more on thin volume days for certain.
Everything the CFO said when introducing this deal has been wrong, Lanstead do not declare every 1%, Lanstead are not long term holders of shares who will ultimately benefit from long term value, they are immediate sellers, the icing on the cake for Lanstead was how generously the naive BOD gave Lanstead a further 83m shares as they deemed this deal to be value enhancing, oh wow.
I suspect Eileen Carr, with £200k of her own cash personally invested, is as annoyed as the rest of us about Lansteads antics, maybe there is truth to the rumour that ORR want Lanstead gone, maybe they have another deal lined up that might deliver a cash injection that would enable a buyback, it would cost around £1.5m.
No wonder the shares are showing signs of a breakout, with Lanstead gone you could see 1p+ in a short space of time IMO.